[Wikimediauk-l] First QRpedia deployment in a church

[Andy Mabbett]

Folks, 

It's my pleasure to announce that one of Birmingham's historic churches, St Paul's, in the city's Jewellery Quarter, is the first church in the world to use QRpedia. I have just helped their staff to install codes linking to articles about the church, the square in which it stands, its famous worshippers (James Watt & Matthew Boulton; each code alongside the location of their respective private pews), the artists who designed and made its east window (Benjamin West &  Francis Eginton).

Codes for  the architect who added its spire (Francis Goodwin), and its famous organist (James Stimpson), will be added shortly.

I'll be posting some images to Commons shortly, then working with them to raise some local and church-sector press coverage.

Many thanks to fellow Wikipedians around the world, who raised the article about the church from one language to eleven over the last week. More would still be welcome!

No doubt an item in "This Month in GLAM" will follow. 

I wonder what Messrs. Boulton and Watt would have made of this innovative technolgy?

The URLs used are:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Birmingham

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Square,_Birmingham

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Boulton

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_West

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Eginton

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Goodwin

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stimpson

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Andy Mabbett
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[Andy Mabbett]

Images now uploaded:

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Pigsonthewing 

[Jon Davies]

Should you do one to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God
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[James Farrar]

The difficulty there would be in finding a particularly appropriate location for the code. All possible locations would seem to be equally valid...